[Help] Altar Question

[lumineth Realm Lord]

I have a main altar kinda fixed into the Eastern corner of the room. However, I'm considering a smaller more portable altar that I can use for rites that require the altar to be in specific places, or facing certain directions.

My question is, should this altar be one of those standing decks you can buy online and put your laptop on? Or be a smaller altar to which I'd have to sit at?

I guess my question is, do you like to do rituals sitting or standing?

Also, happy late Thanksgiving.

 

[Yazata]

Just lay a napkin on the floor, draw an appropriate symbol on it, place a tea light and whatever you think you need on it and say "voila".
Do you ever do anything with the answers you get to your questions?

 

[AbammonTheGreat]

I have a main altar kinda fixed into the Eastern corner of the room. However, I'm considering a smaller more portable altar that I can use for rites that require the altar to be in specific places, or facing certain directions.

My question is, should this altar be one of those standing decks you can buy online and put your laptop on? Or be a smaller altar to which I'd have to sit at?

I guess my question is, do you like to do rituals sitting or standing?

Also, happy late Thanksgiving.

My portable altar is a wooden tray. I think its for breakfast in bed or something but I use it for outdoor rites. For the past year though its been reconsecrated as a scribal altar that I use in front of my main altar that I can sit at in the middle of ritual on the ground and use to draw images/write calligraphy/spells.

When im doing the outdoor rites with it even though its on the ground and low I still stand in front of it. I definitely enjoy the portability of it being so small as ive taken it out into the desert at night, I take it to the beach regularly, graveyards, and abandoned buildings. I think if it was a standing TV tray it'd be alot more of a pain to haul around at night when I have to adventure out for the rite.

 

[Ziran]

do you like to do rituals sitting or standing?

Both.

If you're on the go, bring both: a folding lecturn and a folding table with a chair.

 

[SerpentBakery]

I have a main altar kinda fixed into the Eastern corner of the room. However, I'm considering a smaller more portable altar that I can use for rites that require the altar to be in specific places, or facing certain directions.

My question is, should this altar be one of those standing decks you can buy online and put your laptop on? Or be a smaller altar to which I'd have to sit at?

I guess my question is, do you like to do rituals sitting or standing?

Also, happy late Thanksgiving.

The foldable altar you mention is good if you want more fluidity, permeability, focus on change/flexibility (spiritually and physically speaking - spiritual/physical are two sides of the same coin). The fixed (having to sit at) altar but still portable is better for stability, grounding, remembrance (of self/whatever you're interacting with) and solidity (different than stability - like Earth, yes, but more dense in its function when compared to "fluidity" - think mud as fluidity vs. forest soil as solidity).

It really depends what your practice deals with most. If you want to elaborate, you could tell what you're hoping to achieve/what kind of entity/energy this altar is meant to appeal to. You can use either altar for most things but making sure the physical symbolism/configuration (symbolism/configuration are also two sides of the same coin... form as function and vice versa) can help you reach whatever you're trying to reach more effectively, and can even induce a more appropriate state of mind. If the set-up is coherent (makes sense from a structural/symbolic standpoint) it'll work either way.

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

The foldable altar you mention is good if you want more fluidity, permeability, focus on change/flexibility (spiritually and physically speaking - spiritual/physical are two sides of the same coin). The fixed (having to sit at) altar but still portable is better for stability, grounding, remembrance (of self/whatever you're interacting with) and solidity (different than stability - like Earth, yes, but more dense in its function when compared to "fluidity" - think mud as fluidity vs. forest soil as solidity).

It really depends what your practice deals with most. If you want to elaborate, you could tell what you're hoping to achieve/what kind of entity/energy this altar is meant to appeal to. You can use either altar for most things but making sure the physical symbolism/configuration (symbolism/configuration are also two sides of the same coin... form as function and vice versa) can help you reach whatever you're trying to reach more effectively, and can even induce a more appropriate state of mind. If the set-up is coherent (makes sense from a structural/symbolic standpoint) it'll work either way.

Truth be told, I have a several rituals I wanna do, all requiring the altar to be in a position different from my main altar.

 

[SerpentBakery]

Truth be told, I have a several rituals I wanna do, all requiring the altar to be in a position different from my main altar.

If the rituals require this much flexibility, the geometrically the best (general) bet will be the foldable one. Are they all for the same general kind of entity/energy? (think solar or lunar, Earth or Wind, etc).

 

[lumineth Realm Lord]

One's In Jason Miller's Sorcerers Secret.

Some are in some E.A. Koetting books I have.

And also for goetic rituals once I'm ready.

So, no.